Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-16
THE MARKET BASKET.
Cost of Supplying the Family Table
with Edibles in Butte.

We first incline to the meat markets
and find the stalls well filled. Beef. Mutton.
Pork, Veal and Venison in ample supply
The hardest worked tradesmen are those
who serve customers from the block. They
are universally neat and clean, with white
aprons, a genial c~ountenance, ever ready
with willing hands to wait upon you in
~stanter. The prices tend upwards, but
rule the same in all the shops. Quotations
for rib and loin roasts-the foundation fol
| a square meal are Is to 20 cents; porter
house steaks, 20 to 25 cents; round steaks
| 12h to Is cents; pork steaks IL to 10
| cents; veal steaks, roasts and outlets, Is to
% cents; sausages, as per quality, 12h to
20 cents; corned beef, 8 to 10 cents; veni.
son, IL to Is cents. OF which there ls not
much in the market, o OF antelope OF
elk. Yet when the market gets bare oil
game of this sort there seems to
be more where the last came from.
At the grocery we found a fair supply OF
green truck for this season OF the year
brought in of course from a salubri-
GUS cline. Cauli1ower, very tempting, at
20 cents per pound; radishes, in punches,
that look as they were far-fetched, four for
a quarter; onion in punches, weak in stalk
and small in statue, yet strong, in their
way, four for a quarter; lettuce, in a wilt
ing mood, four for q quarter; Gale, "green
as grass" Is cents a pound; celery, some
what prematurely plucked, 20 cents per
stalk.
Oranges and lemons are coming in, a car
load being due to-day, very choice range
from so to Is cents per dozen. Malaga
grapes, very tempting and toothsome, 35
cents per pound; apples, rosy and red,
fine size and flavor, Pacific slopers. in
boxes Of so pounds, at 50 to $3.50 per
box.
Eggs, has hare heggs, ye knaw. "4Oto so
cents per dozen.
Butter is offered in all shapes and kinds,
high colored and higher Favored ranges
from 80 to so cents per pound. Some very
choice is being shipped in from California;;
but very little strictly fresh from ranches
offered.
York counts. rs to IS cents per dozen.
Oil, Headlight in 5-gallon cans, $1.75.
Potatoes are not plenty, yet the supply
is ample at 3 to TX cents per pound.
Fresh fish are still ice bound and fail to
be hooked, and are not in market.
In the poultry line, wefound a full supply,
as the shippers have learned that it doesn't
pay to send scrubby stock to this point.
The quality is above the average, and
prices are low in comparison with other
meats. Dressed chickens, springers, Is to
20 cents per pound. Turkeys, and very
tempting too, at the same price.
Cranberries are scarce, yet you can buys
quart for 20 cents.
Buckwheat flour, fine grit, 8 to 10 cents
per pound.
Fine maple syrup, imported from Yer
mont. $1.75 to $500 per gallon.
Family fiour is ruling at S1.5O to $500
per quarter sack. Minnesota and Cali
fornia brands take the lead.
Sugar cured hams, 16 to Is cents.
Lovers of coffee will notice a decided rise.
ArL.oAlo's ana like grades are now going
at 80 cents per pound. Green coflees are
up and firm.
There is a tendency upward in all lines of
canned goods.
Wood has advanced $1.OO per cord, yet
the supply is daily filling the demand.
So you see, with a well-filIed purse and a
big basket, one can get the good things that
make an epicure happy, even in this remote
of the globe-where we feed our
mortal bodies on what comes from q far
distance.